User talk:Optymystic

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Image copyright problem with Image:Wmnetlogosmall.jpg
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A tag has been placed on Regional Broadband Consortium, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. StephenBuxton (talk) 17:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, there is no need to add signatures in the main article.

Please don't request the speedy deletion of contents created within the previous few minutes. I appreciate that this is unorthodox technique, but unfortunately my sandbox and previews don't look like the finished object. There is little risk that anyone is going to find my work in progress because, of course, there are no links to it and if I am only just creating it, the likelihood of a search for it within the ensuing minutes must be low.Steve H (talk) 17:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Wmnetlogo.jpg
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I have a great deal of difficulty with the economic inflation page. It is a major and difficult topic and hence inherently controversial, but it is highly problematic from the opening definition onwards. In the first place, the opening definition is not consistent with the disambiguation line which appears above the main text. The second point is that the main defining section wraps up a particularly dominant view of the causes of inflation (an increase in the money supply) with the definition. I am no economist but that becomes logically problematic when later in the article it is necessary to discuss different approaches to the relationship between money supply and inflation which ought to be logically precluded by the opening definition which defines inflation as an increase in money supply. E.g. a rigorous consequence of the opening definition is that the section on the Keynsian approach becomes meaningless.

As an aside, the article is far too long. However, for such a controversial subject the talk pages are staggeringly sparse apart from some cryptic references to whether or not inflation is defined in terms of the money supply or in terms of rising prices, but that discussion is not clearly articulated or followed through. Then comes the bullet........

Dr. Diewert has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

This article looks OK to me.

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Diewert has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:

He hasn't provided us with any helpful comments at all so we cannot use them to improve the article, in fact the comment appears to have been generated mechanically.

In summary, it is a major and critical article with an obvious flaw, but that flaw is not being picked up coherently on the talk page, so I am reluctant to post my thoughts there, particularly in the light of the Doctor Diewert Bot post.

I am sore tempted to edit the main article as follows..

"In economics inflation refers to a general increase in the price of goods and services." That definition is consistent with what Google returns and what the Bank of England uses, it is from the BoE I got my wording.. All that follows can be accommodated under that definition.}}Optymystic (talk) 12:38, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Have you thought about simply editing the article yourself if you have issues with it? The article talk page is really the appropriate place without using helpme template. Editors who are interested in the subject and that article can engage in a meaningful conversation. The helpme template is project wide. For example, I have no experience with that article, and my area of interest isn't with economics, which is likely indicative of many other editors who may answer these help-me requests. Mkdw talk 17:41, 14 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It appears someone recently modified the article and changed what the lead said. I reverted those changes, but the article's talk page is indeed the appropriate place for a more detailed discussion. Dr. Diewert's comments don't indicate a need to change anything, but that in itself seems relevant enough. I rather doubt Dr. Diewert has set up an automated machnine that answers Wikipedia article querys with stock phrases. Huon (talk) 17:54, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of John Hope-Johnstone (photographer)
Hello, Optymystic. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, John Hope-Johnstone (photographer), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:


 * 1) edit the page
 * 2) remove the text that looks like this:
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Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Pixarh (talk) 15:45, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Regional Broadband Consortium for deletion
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I am not saying that this person doesn't exist but you need to provide a reliable source before you add material to this site and if there is unsourced material in an article that dosen't give you the right to add more unsourced text to it. Please read the guidelines concerning this which I linked to you in my edit summaries. Shellwood (talk) 16:12, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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